October 20: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

October 20th marks the 293rd day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 294th in case of leap years). There are 72 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Snoop Dogg (1971), Viggo Mortensen (1958) and Candice Swanepoel (1988).
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Holidays

October 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
French Republican Calendar - Orge (Barley) Day, twenty-ninth day in the Month of VendTmiaire
Bahá'f Faith - Holy Day - the Báb

Events

2018 After a rafting accident in a swollen River, four Americans are killed in Costa Rica.
2017 Syrian Civil War: Battle of Raqa (2017): The Syrian Democratic Forces announce "total liberation of Raqa", previously ISIL's capital.
2016 Turkish military intervention in the Syrian Civil War: Turkish jets hit Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia with 26 airstrikes in three recently-captured-from-ISIL villages west of al-Bab and northeast of Aleppo. According to the Turkish General Staff, 160-200 people have been killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that 11 people were killed and many more were injured. (Reuters),
2015 Iraqi Civil War (2014-17), American-led Intervention in Iraq (2014-2018): Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, arrived in Iraq to discuss ongoing fight against ISIS.
2014 2014 Investigation of Suspected Foreign Underwater Activity in Stockholm Archipelago: The investigation continues, as the Russian Oil-tanker NS Concord continues its crisscrossing outside Stockholm.
2013 Syrian civil war: An attack by Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front suicide truck bomber on a government checkpoint outside Hama (Syria) kills at most 30 people, including a few soldiers.
2012 Syrian civil war: UN special envoy Lakhdar brahimi (Arab League) meets with Walid Muallem, Syrian Foreign Minister, Damascus to try to negotiate a temporary ceasefire for next week's Eid al-Adha holiday.
2011 2011 Libyan Civil War:
2010 After six days in captivity, Somali gunmen released a British security consultant to Save the Children.
2009 European astronomers discover 32 exoplanets.
2008 Sri Lankan Civil War - The Sri Lankan military reports they have broken a critical defensive line close to the Tamil Tiger headquarters in Northern Sri Lanka.
2007 Primary elections for the governor and legislature of the U.S state of Louisiana are held in the Jungle (open).
2006 OPEC has agreed to cut its production by 1.2 million barrels per hour (190,000. m/d) in an attempt to stop falling oil prices.
2005 Ontario will be the first Canadian province that extends daylight saving time in an effort to keep pace with the United States, its largest trading partner.
2004 Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes into Missouri killing 13 and injuring 2.
2003 Jean Chretien, Canadian Prime Minister, indicates that Vladimir Putin indicated during an informal meeting that he was open to signing the Kyoto Protocol. Russia must sign the protocol in order for it to become law.
2001 The Concert for New York City is "a celebration of strength, resilience and pride of New York City and America". It features performances by The Who and Backstreet Boys, Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton.
1997 Richard Gnida, Limo driver in Detroit Red Wings crash, pleads guilty
1996 Summer & Smoke closes at Criterion Theater, New York City
1995 Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final
1994 In Coleman, Michigan, USA a meteorite penetrates the roof of a house.
1993 Highest scoring World Series game Blue Jays 15, Phillies 14 in 4h14m
1992 1st World Series game outside of US - Toronto beats Atlanta
1991 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die
1990 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida
1989 Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India and WI on round-robin
1988 Dodgers win World Series, LA 1st to have both NBA and baseball champs as LA beats Oakland Athletics, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series
1987 Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts / 608,120,000 shares traded
1986 Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
1983 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released
1982 Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler
1981 1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, New Jersey Nets lose to New York Knicks 103-99
1979 Bob Dylan appears on SNL
1978 Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government
1977 Hamilton Deane and John Balderstons Dracula, premieres in New York City
1976 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
1975 Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning
1974 1st broadcast of Derrick on ZDF
1973 Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty
1972 Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia
1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1970 American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1969 WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1968 Her 1st Roman opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 performances
1967 All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers
1965 19th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal
1964 Golden Boy opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 569 performances
1963 Alec Douglas-Home forms British government
1962 Mr President opens at St. James Theater NYC for 265 performances
1960 Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as New York Yankees manager.
1959 Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise
1957 Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w / o losing a wkt
1955 No Time for Sergeants opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith
1954 Peter Pan opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 149 performances
1953 WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya
1951 The ''Johnny Bright Incident'' occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
1950 Australia passes the Communist Party Dissolution Act, which is later struck down by the High Court.
1947 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
1946 Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yards, Chicago Cardinals versus New York Giants.
1945 Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg
1944 Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland explodes, 135 die, 3,600 homeless
1943 The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
1942 "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations.
1941 Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia
1940 Cheese rationed in the Netherlands
1939 All the Things You Are recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
1936 Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL
1935 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid
1934 All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails to Hawaii and Japan
1932 Journalist, Robert Trout, joins CBS
1931 Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP
1930 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio
1929 Bayshore Highway opens
1926 Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600
1924 1st Negro League World Series: Kansas City Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0
1922 Kennelworth in the Bronx renamed Dwight Place.
1920 1st Year with Frank Craven premieres in New York City
1918 Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions
1912 Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St, New York City
1911 Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St, New York City
1910 Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar
1908 King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium
1906 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube
1905 Russian tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish
1903 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska and Canada.
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